Sentence examples for pivotal tests from inspiring English sources

The treatment of minorities — like that of women — is one of the many pivotal tests of the Arab Spring.

Their trials will be pivotal tests of the new government's avowed commitment to the rule of law.

Increasingly, educators say, students at risk of failing pivotal tests commonly given in the 10th and 11th grades are being held back, sometimes more than once.

The effort is a pivotal test of his campaign promise to break the stranglehold of special interests.

But it is also a pivotal test of Egypt's tolerance, pluralism and the rule of law.

"The Newburgh case," Mr. Dunn said, "may be a pivotal test of just how far the government can go".

Chris Hossain, senior sales manager at ODL Securities said: "With global markets having fallen for three straight sessions, we are now facing a pivotal test of the market bulls tenacity.

Hafetz calls the Marri case a pivotal test of "the most far-reaching use of detention powers" ever asserted by an American President.

In the next few weeks, Richard D. Parsons faces his first pivotal test as chief executive of AOL Time Warner: coming up with as much as $9 billion, beginning with an initial downpayment of at least $1 billion in cash.

As it happens, the Atlantis wing that sustained the quarter-inch breach was the same one that contributed a panel from its leading edge to a pivotal test in the investigation of the loss of the Columbia.

Its treatment of the detainees is emerging as a pivotal test of both the provisional government's commitment to the rule of law and its ability to control its thousands of loosely organized fighters.